Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oppressed Redskins. For more than an hour, Russia's bland, hulking Delegate Yakov A. Malik tried to keep the inquiry off the agenda. The case of the "Traitor Mindszenty," he argued, was of concern to Hungary only; the U.S. attempt to bring it before the Assembly was merely a move by the "ruling circles [of America] to boss other people around in their own homes." Moreover, cried Malik, the U.S. was trying to cover up its own sins of oppression, the trials of "political [Communist] leaders," the lynching of Negroes and the "pitiful plight" of the American Indians...
...reign as president was not a glamourous one. Though he did build Silliman College and raise the Yale endowment another $16 million, he made internal matters his main concern. He placed the major disciplines-the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts and medicine -under divisional (not merely departmental) directors, reorganized the Sheffield Scientific School, strengthened Yale's Institute of International Studies, and to the horror of many a student, introduced a required reading program for summer vacations...
...though he feels that his work is "well-nigh completed," Seymour still worries a good deal about the future of such institutions, as Yale. His chief concern is the same as it was twelve years ago-"absolute intellectual freedom . . . The Yale atmosphere must be so completely impregnated with the sense of freedom that our students going from here will serve naturally and universally as its apostles . . . We seek the truth and will endure the consequences...
...aspects of the Atlantic Community will be discussed by Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of Government, in Littauer Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight. This is the fourth in the series of forums sponsored by the college UN Council on the general subject of "The Atlantic Community--A Going Concern...
...Assumptions: "It is with the failure or significant shortcomings of the following assumptions that we shall concern ourselves...